WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lean Cuisine, Jackson Katz, Nuclear Family
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By the end of today"s class you should be able to answer this question: -attention to sex and gender can provide a richer understanding than simply the criminological mainstream theories. Next week will pair corporate and white-collar crime with masculinity theories. Most definitions refer to gender and sex as attributes of individuals. Sex is typically seen as a biologically-based attribute with two natural" categories, female and male. Gender is typically seen as a socially and culturally-based attribute; a continuum with two poles, feminine and masculine. -we need to acknowledge that there are different ways that sex and gender are defined. -commonly, sex and gender are defined as characteristics of individuals. Thus, they are seen as things that distinguish people. However, there is a distinction between sex and gender. Sex is seen as biological or physical characteristics that distinguish males and females. Thus, your sex depends on what you are born with and people lack choice.
